Biography: Orlando was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1977 and when he was 16, he joined the National Youth Theatre for 2 seasons before getting himself a scholarship to train with the British American Drama Academy.

Bloom debuted in the feature film Wilde starring Stephen Fry before he started at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Orlando graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in 1999 after a 3 year acting course and was almost immediately cast in the role of Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Legolas' moves are smooth and elegant, like a cat...it's very balletic. It's also bloody hard to do without falling over!" - E!Online Force of the Hobbit(on being asked to audition for Legolas) "I thought: 'Definetly! Game on!' So I learned the scene and acted it on video tape, and, shortly after, got this incredible phone call saying they were offering me the role! It was like winning the lottery! Like having all your dreams fulfilled! It was amazing!" - LotR Official Movie Guide(on Legolas)
"He has seen the world. He is incredibly experienced in many ways.
Mind you, so he should be - after all, he is 2,931
years old!" - LotR Official Movie Guide

There is a small team endeavouring to deal with Orlando's fan
mail. The team dealing with the fan mail plead for fans not to
keep writing every week or every month. There will strictly be
one reply per fan.

Postage: **THREE OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL REPLY coupons for those
living outside the UK **TWO official International reply coupons
for those living in Europe **and for those in the UK a stamped
addressed envelope

Those sending photographs to be signed may have them stamped
with Orlando's autograph, but there will be no original autographing.
Fans will continue to receive his printed photograph and printed
autograph, usually personalised. If fans keep sending repeat requests
and the incoming mail gets much too heavy for the team, it is
possible that the attempts to satisfy fans will no longer be viable
and no mail at all will be answered.

There is no guarantee that mail sent before April, 2002 will
be answered but there will be an attempt to cope with it soon.
It may take months to deal with the backlog. It will take a matter
of weeks from now to try to answer all the current mail - but
the Fan Mail team must stress, that it cannot guarantee that all
fan mail will be answered because of the volume. Certainly fans
that do not send the correct envelopes and reply coupons will
be disappointed.

Orlando may only see a small proportion of the most interesting
and genuine fan letters but takes an interest in the monthly reports
on fan mail provided by the team. Being a good actor, working
very hard and professionally as part of the creative team is the
most important aspect of filming for him.

He is delighted that so many fans support and vote for him and
hopes these many, many fans will enjoy the forthcoming films he
appears in which include the final part of the Lord of the Rings
trilogy; Pirates of the Caribbean (with Johnny Depp), the Kelly
Gang, the Calcium Kid, in which he plays the lead, all which will
be out this year, and Troy (with Brad Pitt) out next year...with
other exciting possibilities still in the pipeline.